CEPA Summer Institutes

The Summer Institutes for Art Educators are held in the summer months that correspond to Public School summer vacation schedules. The Institutes provide intensive one to two week instruction in art education and its related fields of study. Art Education and Visual Studies classes meet for one week, all studio courses run for two weeks. The Institutes connect students with community resources and visiting artist/ scholars. The Institutes are designed to provide in-depth experiences that are unavailable through regular coursework.

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CFT 543:  Pennsylvania Plates:  Earthenware Narrative
Prof. James Chaney, June 16 - 27, 2008

CFT 546:  Omnifarious Jewelry:  Using and Joining Diverse
Prof. James Malenda, June 16 - 27, 2008

FAR 504:  Graduate Sculpture      CANCELED
Prof. Rick Salafia, June 29 - July 11, 2008

ARU 525:  Design Thinking:  Introducing Product Design to Arts Education Curriculum
Prof. Lyn Godley, July 6 - 11, 2008

ARU 556:  What's the Story:  The Narrative as Entry into Art, Visual Culture, and Curriculum
Dr. Marilyn Stewart, July 6 - 11, 2008

ARU 541:  Teaching Design:  Classroom Approaches to K-12 Design Education
Dr. Martin Rayala, July 20 - 25, 2008

ART EDUCATION STUDY INSTITUTE
CFT 543:  Pennsylvania Plates:  Earthenware Narrative
June 16 - 27, 2008

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is please to offer PENNSYLVANIA PLATES:  EARTHENWARE NARRATIVE. Students in this institute will be introduced to both the cultural and technical features of Pennsylvania “Dutch” Ceramic Earthenware, with a focus on drape-molded plates.  Class enrollment limited to 15 students.

Traditionally formed from readily available, hand-dug clay—the same clay used to make common brick—earthenware was the 19^th century “plastic”.  Surface decoration  ranged from simple, quickly executed “ trailed” lines to elaborate commemorative “sgraffito” platters, including names, dates, and primitive graphics.  The forming, firing, and decorative techniques pursued in the institute will accommodate both historical reproduction, and contemporary personal statements.

Course field trips will include travel to the Lester Breininger ceramic studio for a hands-on demonstration and narration of his private earthenware collection, as well as to the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  The Pennsylvania German Heritage Center on campus will be used as a resource.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This particular ceramic institute focused on the surface treatment of “flatware” easily accommodates those with little previous ceramic experience.  The institute will meet 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday from June 16 through 27.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

James Chaney, Faculty and Coordinator is a Professor of Ceramics at Kutztown University and holds an MFA in Ceramics from Kent State University.  Jim has explored interpretive functional work, both through slip-casting and throwing, most recently firing his work in a wood fired Anagama-style kiln, constructed after study in Japan.  His work is exhibited at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia.

Lester P. Breininger Jr., is the recognized regional authority on Pennsylvania German earthenware.  Traveling across southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as back to Germany, Lester has extensively researched Pennsylvania German traditions and crafts, particularly ceramics.  Having received the Hazlett Award in the Arts from the Governor, he is a much sought after presenter and consultant.  Presently a retired high school science teacher, this KU alumnus maintains a working ceramic studio in Robesonia, Pa.

Dr. Robert Reynolds, is the Freyberger Professor of Pennsylvania German Studies at Kutztown University, and the director of the Pennsylvania German Heritage Center on campus.  Presently, he is documenting and expanding the Center’s collection of historical Pennsylvania German cultural artifacts, including indigenous architecture, enhancing the Heritage Center as an instructional resource.

NON-CREDIT OPTION                                      $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                              PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE Required Institute Fee/Tuition                     $1,356.50                       $2,061.60

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear West, and linens (top sheet, bottom sheet, pillow case, towels and a washcloth)   *The linens do not include pillows or blankets*

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday             $326

All students who are not already enrolled at Kutztown University and who desire graduate credit must complete an Application for Graduate Admission and supply official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies.  Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Bursar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2008.  All fees must be paid to the Bursar’s Office no later than June 1, 2008, to ensure room in the institute.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Professor James Chaney, Coordinator
Pennsylvania Plates:  Earthenware Narratives
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4508     FAX: (610) 683-4502    E-MAIL:  chaney@kutztown.edu  

 ART EDUCATION STUDY INSTITUTE
CFT 546:  Omnifarious Jewelry:  Using and Joining Diverse Materials
June 16 - 27, 2008

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer OMNIFARIOUS JEWELRY:  USING AND JOINING DIVERSE MATERIALS.  Omnifarious means “of all forms or parts”.  This course will first explore materials beyond metals that can be found, appropriated and used in the creation of making jewelry and small objects, including plastics, wood, glass, rubber, etc.  These explorations will include manipulation, additive and reductive techniques, and deconstruction.  

Secondly we will examine methods of joining these materials to each other and to metals and other substrates.  Cold joining techniques (miniature nuts and bolts, riveting and glues...) will be investigated primarily along with soldering in the creation of small, intimate jewelry/objects.  Concepts and ideas relating to both jewelry and materials will be considered. 

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute is designed to offer two full weeks (Monday June 16^th through Friday June 27^th, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.) of hands-on intense workshops, lectures, seminars, small group and individual consultations.  There is a materials fee of $25.00 for this institute. The Institute meets in Rickenbach Research and Learning Center room 225.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Professor James Malenda, coordinator, is Professor of Fine Metals in the department of Art Education and Crafts at Kutztown University.  He has exhibited, lectured, and conducted numerous workshops both nationally and internationally. Most recently he has exhibited in “The Ring Show: Then and Now” at the National Ornamental Metals Museum in Memphis, TN, and “Wedding Rituals” at the Tong In Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.  

Scott Cylinder, is a studio jeweler known internationally for his narrative and conceptual jewelry.  Along with his wife, Lisa, he has created a unique body of work, both studio multiples under the name “Chicken Scratch”, and large, one of a kind pieces over the past nineteen years.  Their work can be found shown in galleries across the U.S. and has been exhibited at Sofa, NYC and Chicago, Snyderman-The Works Gallery, Velvet DaVinci, and the Society of Arts and Crafts.  Their work is in numerous public and private collections and publications.  Scott holds degrees in Jewelry and Metals from Tyler School of Art and SUNY New Paltz.  

NON-CREDIT OPTION                            $275.00 

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                  PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition            $1,381.50                      $2,086.60 

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site.   

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear West, and linens (top sheet, bottom sheet, pillow case, towels and a washcloth)   *The linens do not include pillows or blankets* 

Room:  Eleven Nights--Monday-Thursday         $326 

All students who are not already enrolled at Kutztown University and who desire graduate credit must complete an Application for Graduate Admission and supply official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies.  Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Bursar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2008.  All fees must be paid to the Bursar’s Office no later than June 1, 2008, to ensure room in the institute. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Professor James Malenda, Coordinator
Omnifarious Jewelry: Using and Joining Diverse Materials
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4503     FAX:  (610) 683-4502    E-MAIL:  malenda@kutztown.edu

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ART EDUCATION STUDY INSTITUTE
ARU 525:  DESIGN THINKING
Introducing Product Design to Arts Education Curriculum
July 6 - 11, 2008

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer DESIGN THINKING: Introducing Product Design to arts education curriculum. 

Design Thinking is a way of integrating multiple elements into a project based learning experience. The ability to examine the world around us through active observation, using imagination and cognitive skills to decide how it could be changed, making that change visible through models drawings and plans, and engaging in critical discussion and critique is the basis of all design work.  Class enrollment limited to 15 students.

We are surrounded everyday by hundreds of objects that were conceived in this manner. By using product design as a focus, students are encouraged to participate in the design process and learn to observe the environment and objects around them through the eyes of a designer and, through the principles of design thinking, find creative solutions in the forms of models and plans.  

Product design is widely recognized and there is a growing need for multi-skilled designers. It covers a wide spectrum of fields from engineering based, which places more emphasis on the technological aspects of design, or art based product design which focuses more on the aesthetic qualities. It can involve highly technical, technological or craft-based skills - often in combination. Product designers create solutions to problems, inventing new ways of doing things. Designed objects are solutions to people’s needs and desires. Design can be defined as ‘moving from the existing to the preferred’. Design makes learning immediately relevant by directly relating to real-life experience.  

This Institute is applicable to educators from a range of disciplines including all of the Arts, History, Social Studies, Business, and Science. Through the Institute, this course will include field trips to Product Design studios, where we will observe how designers conceive and actualize products for the market from limited editions to mass production; museum exhibitions of product design where Product Design curriculum opportunities will be explored; and hands-on projects to introduce Product Design into the classroom.

Students will develop interdisciplinary curriculum concepts and a product-based project related to their content area.  

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

The institute is designed to offer one week (Sunday through Friday) of lectures, seminars, group discussions, and hands-on activities as well as individual consultations.   The institute will meet 3:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, and 8:30 a.m. through

5:00 p.m. daily, Monday, July 7 through Friday, July 11.  The Institute will meet in Old Main room 25. 

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Lyn Godley, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Education and Crafts, has taught Foundation Design and Product Design classes at Kutztown University since 2004, and Product Design at Parsons School of Design in NYC since 1996. She has an MFA in Painting, and has had her own design company producing lighting, furniture, and product since 1984. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of arts and Design, the Jewish Museum, and the Denver Art Museum. 

NON-CREDIT OPTION                                 $275.00 

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                           PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE
Required Institute Fee/Tuition                 $1,356.50                      $2,061.60

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site.   

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.

Room:  Five Nights--Sunday-Thursday               $162 

All students who are not already enrolled at Kutztown University and who desire graduate credit must complete an Application for Graduate Admission and supply official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies.  Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Bursar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2008.  All fees must be paid to the Bursar’s Office no later than June 1, 2008, to ensure room in the institute. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Professor Lyn Godley, Coordinator, Design Thinking:  Introducing Product
       Design to Arts Education Curriculum
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610)683-4505     FAX:  (610)683-4502     E-Mail:  godley@kutztown.edu

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ART EDUCATION STUDY INSTITUTE
ARU 556:  What's the Story:  The Narrative as Entry into Art, Visual Culture, and Curriculum
July 6 - 11, 2008

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY is pleased to offer WHAT'S THE STORY:  THE NARRATIVE AS ENTRY INTO ART, VISUAL CULTURE, AND CURRICULUM.  The Allentown Art Museum's special exhibitions William Wegman: Fay (photography) and Linda Lee Alter: A Life in Art (painting, textiles) as well as the permanent collection serve as the backdrop for this summer institute that explores the narrative aspects of artworks both past and present. Class enrollment limited to 30 students.  Participants will discover how artists from around the world and throughout time have created individual and bodies of work that literally and figuratively tell stories. Throughout the week, we will engage in a range of experiences from gallery activities, artist/curator talks, field trips, art making, and more--all aimed at fueling inquiry into the art of the story. All activities are designed to deepen  understanding of the use of the narrative in art while developing new ideas, activities, and lessons for use in teaching. Emphasis will be placed on building connections to enduring ideas and contemporary themes through art criticism, history, appreciation, art making, and language arts.

STUDY INSTITUTE PROGRAM

This institute will begin with an organizational meeting and dinner on Sunday, July 6 from 3:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m.  For the remainder of the week, the Allentown Art Museum will be our official meeting place, from where we will embark on occasional day trips to regional sites.  Daily sessions will officially begin at 9 a.m., but the doors will be open at 8:30 a.m. for participants to peruse the many resource materials on display in the institute meeting room.  Daily sessions will conclude at 5:00 p.m.

INSTITUTE FACULTY

Dr. Marilyn Stewart, Faculty and Coordinator, is Professor of Art Education at KU, co-author of the elementary art textbook program, Explorations in Art, the middle school textbook program, Art and the Human Experience, author of Rethinking Curriculum in Art and Thinking Through Aesthetics, and editor of the Art Education in Practice series, all published by Davis Publications.  A frequent keynote speaker and consultant in national curriculum projects, she has conducted over 200 extended staff development institutes, seminars, or in-service days in over 25 states.

Ms. Lise M. Dubé, Guest Faculty, is the Director of Education at the Allentown Art Museum. Lise holds a M.A. in Art Education from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada and has been a practicing Museum Educator for 15 years.  Her areas of specialization include K-12 school programming, teacher professional development, and teaching art in non-traditional settings.  Lise's current work focuses on developing on-line educational materials for teachers and students based on museum digital collections.  Her most recent project, The Renaissance Connection (www.renaissanceconnection.org), integrates Renaissance innovations into the middle school classroom through art works, lesson plans and interactive activities.

NON-CREDIT OPTION                                    $275.00

GRADUATE CREDIT FEES                           PA RESIDENTS                 OUT-of-STATE Required Institute Fee/Tuition                   $1,356.50                     $2,061.60

ACT 48 hours available for credit and noncredit options.  For an itemized list of the fee/tuition charges and ACT 48 information please see the Art Education and Crafts web site. 

HOUSING

Students are encouraged to room on campus, in handicapped-accessible facilities, so they benefit from interaction with colleagues.  Room fee includes housing in Golden Bear West, and linens (top sheet, bottom sheet, pillow case, towels and a washcloth)   *The linens do not include pillows or blankets*

Room:  Five Nights--Sunday-Thursday               $162

All students who are not already enrolled at Kutztown University and who desire graduate credit must complete an Application for Graduate Admission and supply official transcripts to the College of Graduate Studies.  Send Institute Registration Form and check to the Bursar’s Office, Administration Building, Room 225, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, 19530 by June 1, 2008.  All fees must be paid to the Bursar’s Office no later than June 1, 2008, to ensure room in the institute.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Marilyn Stewart, Coordinator
What’s the Story:  The Narrative as Entry into Art, Visual Culture, and
    Curriculum
Department of Art Education and Crafts
Kutztown University
Kutztown, PA  19530
PHONE:  (610) 683-4517   FAX: (610) 683-4502    E-MAIL: stewart@kutztown.edu

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         ART EDUCATION STUDY INSTITUTE
ARU 541:  Teaching Design:  Classroom Approaches to K-12 Design Education
July 20 - 25, 2008

Past Institutes have been organized in partnership with The Allentown Art Museum, Binney & Smith, and The Schuylkill National and State Heritage Area.

Center for Exemplary Practices in the Arts is dedicated to the establishment of Best Practices in the teaching of the visual arts and visual literacy. The Center fosters the development of a community of art educators, programs in professional development, and research into exemplary teaching in the visual arts.